My 1970 GMC “Project Splice”

[chewychevy67]

That looks good

[Tip70]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

Haha thanks. Good luck on yours. I'm finding it difficult to hold on to the small pieces while grinding them.

I could imagine! slow and steady wins the race

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by chewychevy67

That looks good

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Tip70

I could imagine! slow and steady wins the race

Haha it definitely is a slow process. One that involves alot of burns on the fingers

[Kronald_70GMC]

Got my nice grille nosing removed off that manky grille tonight. I've heard that these are riveted on from factory so this one was obviously changed as it was attached with flat head screws and square nuts that looked like they had a previous life at the bottom of the ocean. I had to grind them all out which proved pretty easy as I did not care about the grille in the least so I did all the grinding from the grille side so as not to damage the part I needed.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Today, I got the rest of letters ground down. I'll likely go with one of these orientations. I'm leaning more towards on the right like factory orientation. The door will be painted black with a silver edge to match the gauge package. I think it will look awesome.

[chewychevy67]

I agree. Something about the centered one looks to busy or something. I like the lower right lettering.

[Tip70]

nice! Its going to look sweet!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Thank you.

[loudchevy]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

I'm leaning more towards on the right like factory orientation.

Nice little custom touch! I agree, the letters on the lower right look better.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by loudchevy

Nice little custom touch! I agree, the letters on the lower right look better.

Thanks. I agree, I think that's what I'll be going with.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Today I started to fill the weld seam along the inner roof skin. It is quite the tricky process to sand the corners perfectly so I has taken me many light coats to get to this point. The closer I get, the easier it is to just use the shape of the plastic bondo spreader and only do light sanding. This is all fiberglass reinforced filler and it will all need a coat, probably several, of the lightweight filler yet.

[Kronald_70GMC]

More filler put down along the welded seam on the inner roof skin today. I've pretty well got all the deeper spots filled in with fiberglass filler now so I can start the light filler next weekend I think. I also used some of the extra filler I had mixed up on some areas of the inner firewall and toe kick areas instead of wasting it.

While waiting for filler to dry, I also took an old ragged dash pad I had and stripped out the spine. I had to remove the 2 end studs and put in some rivnuts going the other direction as I am planning to make my dash pad with fiberglass and it will be too rigid to get those studs in place.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Well it's been a rough few weeks. My grandma passed away on the 8th of November and I was really having a tough time getting motivated to do anything for a while after. As I started to feel the motivation to do anything come back, me and my whole family ended up with Covid. I missed a whole week of work but today, I finally made it back out to the shop to work with some filler. I've completed the marglass stage of the inner roof seam and moved on to the lightweight filler there. The passenger rocker panel is also complete with marglass.

[Getter-Done]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

Well it's been a rough few weeks. My grandma passed away on the 8th of November and I was really having a tough time getting motivated to do anything for a while after. As I started to feel the motivation to do anything come back, me and my whole family ended up with Covid. I missed a whole week of work but today, I finally made it back out to the shop to work with some filler. I've completed the marglass stage of the inner roof seam and moved on to the lightweight filler there. The passenger rocker panel is also complete with marglass.

Sorry for your loss.
The thing that helps me the most When I start missing my Loved ones/ Mentors,
Is Remembering what they taught and instilled in me.

My last Childhood mentor passed away a month ago today.

I was so fortunate to have all of them in my life.

Your marglass work is Over the Top.

You have Master that stuff.

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by Getter-Done

Sorry for your loss.
The thing that helps me the most When I start missing my Loved ones/ Mentors,
Is Remembering what they taught and instilled in me.

My last Childhood mentor passed away a month ago today.

I was so fortunate to have all of them in my life.

Your marglass work is Over the Top.

You have Master that stuff.

You are right, the memories will always be there and it's good to have them. I am sorry for your loss as well.

Thank you for the compliments.

[Kronald_70GMC]

I finished sanding my 1st coat of filler on the drivers side of the inner roof and put down another coat today. While waiting for that to dry, I fit my drivers side ac vent. I ordered the kit from LMC a while ago and so far I am happy with it. I had to do some sanding on the plastic to get it to fit really nice to the dash. Made sure to fit the duct connector as well and I'm glad I did. I had to file out small notches where the 3 clips are located. My opening was very tight and the clips wouldn't open up to allow the connector to fit. Once my filler was dry, I sanded the corner again and it is very close to perfection now. I need a few light skims in a couple spots and that corner should be good for primer.

[Tip70]

Nice work! its looking great!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by Tip70

Nice work! its looking great!

Thanks!

[Kronald_70GMC]

More sanding and another coat of filler today. The section over the drivers door is ready for primer now as well as the rear piller. The section along the back should be good after I sand the last coat of filler I just put down. I realized that I had sanded it a little bit square instead of a nice radius so I had to do some extra sanding which required another coat now.

[Scurry67]

Originally Posted by Kronald_70GMC

More sanding and another coat of filler today. The section over the drivers door is ready for primer now as well as the rear piller. The section along the back should be good after I sand the last coat of filler I just put down. I realized that I had sanded it a little bit square instead of a nice radius so I had to do some extra sanding which required another coat now.

Looking good. Awesome attention to detail! The filler work is so time consuming, but you’ll be spraying primer before you know it

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by Scurry67

Looking good. Awesome attention to detail! The filler work is so time consuming, but you’ll be spraying primer before you know it

Thanks for the kind words!

[Kronald_70GMC]

More filler today. I'd say that I'm about 96% in the drivers side corner of the roof seam which I will leave as is now and prime it heavily as every time I try to get it 100%, I have another spot that gets sanded out just a bit too much. I have a few small pin hole type areas to fill along the back. While waiting for filler to dry, I sanded down the metal band that runs under the rear window to bare metal. It was pretty close but it had some surface rust and the odd bit of paint left from when the last owner of the cab had it blasted. Not too bad for being in bare metal for....hmmm must be going on 7 or more years now since I bought it and who knows how long it was blasted before I bought it.

[Tip70]

coming along nicely!

[Kronald_70GMC]

Originally Posted by Tip70

coming along nicely!

Thank you!

[Kronald_70GMC]

I feel like tonight was a good night on the truck. I got a pretty good amount done. I sanded the filler on the passenger corner and then filled the corner again as well as the inner roof above the passenger door, the B pillar and a bit of the lower sash below the rear window. Then while that was drying, I fit my passenger side Ac vent. It went pretty good until I tried to put the duct adapter in. The clip that accepts the screw for the top of the bezel is holding the top tab for the duct down and therefore I can't install it. My Uncle (chewychevy67) told me that it is because the clips that come with the new kits are not the same as factory. He has a factory style clip that I will try and hopefully that will work. Otherwise I may have to cut that tab off and hope that the 2 will hold it. After that, I sanded all the filler that I had applied.